This is a short, funny video that uses simple animation to make just the mouth move on the photographs. Onomatopoeia - try saying that ten times fast! It means words that sound like what they are - Splash! This is from ABC's One Saturday Morning. For... third-grade and older students. (01:40)[more]

This video explains the origin and meaning of idioms related to outdoors. This video was designed for the advanced English language learner. Lesson 1. "out of the woods", "no bed of roses", and "to have a green thumb" (02:48).

This selection contains a video of students reading poems they have written which contain similes and metaphors. This video could be used by teachers when encouraging students to use figurative language. (01:19)

The instructor uses a whiteboard and clip-art cut-outs to demonstrate three types of figurative language. This video is suitable for third-grade students and older. (Note: The instructor deliberately has the first few seconds blurred.) (02:22)

Weather is a familiar topic that can be portrayed on a figurative language board to promote motivation for literacy and knowledge building. This teacher shares something that has worked in her classroom for learning about figurative language. (01:28...)[more]

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